Consciousness Quotes

A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness. (Hermann Ebbinghaus)
The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people. View quote
Norman Mailer
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself. View quote
Leon Trotsky
There is no birth of consciousness without pain. View quote
Carl Jung
If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion, peace. View quote
Eckhart Tolle
Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind. View quote
Patañjali
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. View quote
Ayn Rand
And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music. View quote
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. View quote
Henry James
Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh. View quote
Emil Cioran
In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. (Marshall McLuhan)
The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity. View quote
Steve Biko
Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning. View quote
Clifford D. Simak
I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness. View quote
Huey P. Newton
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious. View quote
Karl Kraus
The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power. View quote
Joseph Conrad
The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie. View quote
Joseph Brodsky
His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
I don't believe that consciousness is generated by the brain. I believe that the brain is more of a reciever of consciousness. (Graham Hancock)
It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness. View quote
Lisa Bonet
I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness. View quote
James Thurber
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness. View quote
George Eliot
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life but that great consciousness of life. View quote
Jack Kerouac